Scotia on November 7th, 2011

I ran across this recipe from the Create show, Pati’s Mexican Table. It was a meat dish with chroizo and was cooked a different way. I really like the way it came out as a side. It is great warm, room temperature or even cold. It would be a tasty side dish to take to [...]

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Scotia on October 31st, 2011

Here is a recipe I found at Vegetarian Times that I have changed quite a bit. It takes a little over 1 hour from start chopping to finish cooking, so, it is fairly fast to make. I really like the additional seeds and the fig balsamic vinegar in the dish. If you don’t have that, [...]

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Scotia on October 18th, 2011

This is a simple and flavorful side dish good for all sorts of meals. It is fairly quick to make and tastes wonderful. I got the cabbage at my local farmers market when they came in season. There are so many wonderful cabbages to use. I want to try to grow some next year. If [...]

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Scotia on August 22nd, 2011

It is really amazing what a 32 square foot garden can produce. This year our garden went wild in greens. We planted several leafy lettuces, chard, collards, kale, two kinds of spinach, arugula, bib lettuce, romaine lettuce and radishes. The more traditional stuff is 3 kinds of yellow squash, zucchini, golden beets, carrots, lemon and [...]

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Scotia on August 8th, 2011

A good green bean salad can be taken to any summer event and enjoyed without a problem of spoiling if you don’t use mayo or eggs or other protien. The beans are harcort verts or skinny French green beans. This salad is good warm or room temp, cold, not so much. So, the perfect salad [...]

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Scotia on July 25th, 2011

We planted some collards, kale, radish and salad spinach this year for the first time and, even though we planted each in a 1 foot square plot, we got a really good crop. We harvested the salad spinach last week, the radishes two weeks ago and since and the collards for the first time this [...]

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Scotia on July 19th, 2011

On a whim, we bought a pound of steamer clams on Sunday at the Farmer’s Market. I had a recipe in mind to try from a Ming Sigh episode on ginger & cream. It was a good recipe with mussels, I adjusted here and there and used half & half instead of heavy cream, added [...]

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Scotia on July 5th, 2011

This is one of the wonderful things that Alice Waters brought to California. A simple French tart with fruit. There are so many great cooks that made this kind of a recipe possible. I see Fannie, Julia and James here, too. Easy to make and easy to eat. Oh, get the best apples you can, [...]

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Scotia on June 27th, 2011

I made this dish for the “End of School” Party for teachers and paraeducators at the school Sweetie worked at this year. It was a lovely party and I got to meet so many great teachers and paras that help our next generation to get an education. Deviled eggs just seem to be something that [...]

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Scotia on May 30th, 2011

I have been playing around with puff pastry this month ever since I made an apple/raisin/nut strudel with it for my birthday. Since asparagus is in season now, I looked to my refrigerator, freezer and herb garden to come up with some interesting combinations of flavor to add. Here is a simple, creamy, cheesy, herby, [...]

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